“The gun is perhaps the most iconic image in the media, a constant presence in everything from newscasts about faraway wars and local crimes to its persistent role as a narrative device in movies. While guns always foreshadow violence, they also offer a false promise of safety from an outside threat.” Christian Marclay’s Crossfire White Cube catalogue, 2007

Guns evoke a paradoxical sense of dread and fascination in people. Bang Bang is a black & white silent animation created from 7 single frames of found film footage of muzzle flashes - the device used to portray gun fire in films. Like a fingerprint every muzzle flash differs. I wanted to make an animation capturing the subtlety & seductiveness of this ‘light’ used so ubiquitously to depict violence.

It also has a series of Moment paintings & Muzzle Flash photo paintings made in conjunction with this piece. It has been screened at Wimbledon Short Film festival 2011 and at Vitrine Gallery’s Lewton Bus: A Double Feature exhibition with the “Your advertising’s just dandy… folks would never guess you don’t have a thing to sell” (2012) installation.